Maggie Zhu is the creator of the website and accompanying Youtube channel Omnivore’s Cookbook.

Born in Beijing now living in the US with her husband Maggie shares her take on modern Chinese food while maintaining the influence of treasured family recipes.

By integrating Chinese spices and ingredients with local produce, Maggie can create dishes that are exciting and unique.

Maggie uses modern appliances in her recipes to make recreating complicated dishes easier and faster and allowing you to enjoy healthy homemade food rather than opting for takeout.

Her cookbook, The Chinese Stir Fry Sauce Cookbook is also unique and a fantastic idea. It contains just nine basic Chinese sauces that she uses to create 41 recipes.

Maggies’ passion for cooking and sharing Chinese food helps her make friends in her new home and stay connected to her traditions from home.

Try one of Maggie’s delicious recipes today by clicking on the photo’s below or scroll to the bottom of this post for all Maggie’s links.

Cook with Maggie Zhu

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About Strictly Dumpling

Strictly Dumpling is a very entertaining channel started in 2013 by host Mike Chen. Although mostly about authentic Chinese food Mike also makes videos about lots of other cuisines.

Passionate about food is an understatement when describing Mike. His seemingly boundless energy and enthusiasm make for addictive viewing.

Mike takes us with him as he tries incredible food from restaurants across the US and overseas. He loves to travel and also has a vlog highlighting his adventures.

Mike not only loves to eat he also loves to cook. He started his recipe channel, Pho The Love of Food with some close friends who also love to cook and present recipe videos online.

In fact apart from Strictly Dumpling Mike lists five other food related channels and he also has a very popular channel called Beyond Science.

He certainly makes good use of all that energy!

To join Mike as he samples some amazing food simply click on a photo below or scroll to the bottom of this post for all of Scrictly Dumpling’s links.

Strictly Dumpling Links

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There are a few dishes that you need on your table and good reasons to include them too. For example a noodle dish signifies a long life and a whole chicken means unity (traditionally the head and feet are left on but this might be a bit of stretch for most of us).

Include some oranges for good luck, try Entertaining with Beth’s Orange Chicken and a whole fish to bring abundance.

If you’re planning to start a family in 2018 throw in a bowl of sunflower seeds, they are believed to encourage fertility.

Plan to strike it rich this year? Put some spring rolls on the menu, thought to resemble gold bars. Also really delicious.

Finish off your meal with Chinese New Year Cake, it brings good luck.

Also take a look at these great videos from Trevor James of The Food Ranger. The first one is Trevor sharing an amazing meal in Sichuan and the second shows a rural celebration in Southern China. They give wonderful insight into authentic Chinese New Year celebrations.

Chinese Healthy Cook is about simple fresh food made with love.

Ling remembers watching her grandma and mom cook the family meal. Her channel  continues the tradition of cooking food to enjoy with family and friends. This is how Ling explains the importance of food in China, “enjoying good meals with family and friends is a way to show love, friendship and hospitality.”

The recipes really are easy to learn and make great additions to the weekly family meal rotation.

Try some of Ling’s recipes by clicking on the photo’s below or scroll to the bottom of this post for all of Ling’s links.

Cook with Healthy Chinese Cook

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